“What are you talking about?” asked Rick, he did not understand why on earth Sofia would have to fire the cook who had been with them for so long. “My Rick, I dare not answer that,” replied the baker, they were all dismissed as Rick turned to face Sofia, she was trembling with fear, the men she thought she knew happened to be scarier than she ever imagined.

“Why will you have the cook fired without consulting me or mother? Sofia the cook has been with this family for so long and you just can't fire them when you please and think hiring servants to poison me in the name...